Granary Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Granary Cottage
- WRENN ID
- last-passage-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Granary Cottage, Wichenford, Worcester, Kenswick, WR6 6YE
- OS grid reference
- SO 780 588
- Coordinates
- 52.22718, -2.32246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Granary Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features a timber frame with brick infill panels, some of which are rendered, and has brick replacement walling. The roof is tiled, and there is a brick stack located at the rear main ridge in the center. The building has a hall and cross-wing type plan, consisting of a three-bay hall range and a two-bay cross-wing. It is a single storey with an attic that includes a dormer.
The framing includes three square panels from the sill to the wall-plate, with short, straight braces in the upper panels of the main range and long straight braces in the lower corners of the cross-wing gable ends. The roof structure features queen strut trusses with three struts to the collar and 'V'-struts in the apex at the gable ends.
On the front elevation facing south, the main part has a ground floor casement window in the left bay, a gabled dormer with a casement, and two planked doors. The cross-wing gable end has a casement window in the central panel beneath the tie-beam, along with pierced, shaped bargeboards. There is also a mullioned window at the angle where the main part meets the cross-wing.
Inside, the cottage has single, trenched purlins and queen strut trusses. The cross-wing is only floored in the rear bay, and there is a winder staircase located in the central bay of the main part.
Local climate
Granary Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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